Degrees

Biography

Dr. Zong Tian joined the University of Nevada Reno in 2004 and is currently an associate professor and the founding director CATER.

He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University. He held a position of associate research scientist at the Texas Transportation Institute between 2000 and 2004. He was employed at Kittelson and Associates, Inc. in Portland, Oregon between 1995 and 1999.

Dr. Tian is active in several transportation professional organizations. He has been a member of two committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB): the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee, and the Traffic Signal Systems Committee. He is the paper review chair for the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee of TRB, handling over 60 paper reviews each year. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS). He chairs the Special Interest Group (SIG-C2) focusing on Urban Transport Operations. He has been serving as a co-organizer for the International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies (ICTTS) since 2004 and has been the co-editor of the conference proceedings.

His specialty area is in traffic signal systems and operations, highway capacity, and integrated freeway and arterial operations. Tian received the Young Consultant Award from ITE in 1997.